Yu Dong has never taken any money from the company. Instead, he has been investing money into the company in the early stage. But even so, he has already saved a lot of money in his personal account.
The main source of this money is royalties, and other income includes consulting fees, design fees, film and television adaptation licensing fees, screenwriting fees, etc.
During this time, Jimmy had actually been staring at the money Yu Dong had saved.
In Jimmy's opinion, it is most unreliable to put money in an account. It has to be transferred, so Jimmy wants to join a joint venture with Yu Dong to enter the industry.
The main reason is that a former student of Yu Dong named Wang Jin originally had a small shoe-making workshop at home. It has developed well in the past few years and has grown to a certain scale.
Last year, Wang Jin came to Shen Kong to talk to Yuliang about cooperation. On the one hand, he hoped that Shen Kong could invest some money in their company to expand its scale. On the other hand, he also wanted to use Shen Kong's platform to build their brand.
It's just that the center of Deep Space Company is in the entertainment sector, so it didn't take this matter seriously and kept it on the shelf.
What Jimmy thought was that he and Yu Dong could set up a company individually, and then invest in or acquire Wang Jin's company.
In fact, Jimmy's idea is very simple. If he wants to start a career, it is best to start with basic necessities.
The four items of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and the two items of food and housing, have high costs, high risks, and long cycles. They are all heavy assets.
There is also the industry. If you want to make money in the industry, you must either build roads or build cars.
If you want to build roads, you have to set up a construction company. Nowadays, the profits of the construction industry are very objective, but the risks are high and the responsibilities are great. If something happens if you are not careful, you will be implicated. There is no need for them to take this risk.
Moreover, the construction industry has little to do with Deep Space’s current business, so Deep Space cannot rely on Deep Space to provide effective help.
Besides building cars, Jimmy thought it would be better to build roads.
Food, housing and transportation are all taken away, leaving only clothing.
Jimmy is very optimistic about China's clothing market. As the living standards of the Chinese people get higher and higher, people's requirements for clothing will also increase.
Nowadays, there are only a handful of large-scale domestic clothing brands, and Anta, Xtep, and others are not popular in Jimmy's opinion. If they enter the market, it will be very easy to win the market.
Jimmy has seen samples of Wang Jin's shoes. The quality is very good, and the design is very distinctive and has great potential.
The disadvantage is that the brand is not well-known, and it is purely in the low-end market, which is completely small profits but quick turnover.
In Jimmy's opinion, the Wang Jin family's shoemaking business is pretty good, but the business is not very good. If they continue to do this, their profits will definitely become lower and lower in the future. In the end, they will be unable to capture this crazy rising market and will eventually withdraw from the business.
Now if Wang Jinjia wants to build a brand, he must first work hard on publicity.
Since you are making shoes, it is best to find a sports star to endorse you, and then spend some money to shoot an advertisement and broadcast it on TV, focusing on the market of young people in big cities.
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Yu Dong didn't know that Jimmy was interested in his small treasury. He was looking at an invitation letter in the office.
This invitation letter was sent from the Italian sei publishing house. It said that it hoped that Yu Dong could attend the award ceremony of the Grinzana Carver Literary Award in July.
Although it was not stated clearly, the meaning was obvious. Yu Dong won this year's Grinzana Carver Literary Award.
Just last year, Yu Hua won this award for "To Live" and became the first Chinese writer to win this award. This year, Yu Dong won this award again.
As far as Yu Dong knows, this should also be the first time that the Greenzana Carver Literary Award has awarded an international literary award to a writer from the same country for two consecutive years.
Of course, this can only be regarded as unprecedented, but it cannot be regarded as unprecedented, because in Yu Dong’s impression, the Carver Literary Award later broke the tradition twice. Later, they awarded the award to American writers and Spanish writers for two consecutive years.
In this life, a Chinese writer broke this tradition by awarding the Carver Literary Award.
The Greenzana Carver Literary Award is not a wild award, but a very important literary award. Before Yu Dong and Yu Hua, many heavyweights in the literary world had won this award.
For example, Michel Tournière, the French master of the New Fable School, Doris Reising, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Nathalie Salote, a leading figure in the New Novel School, and the famous Brazilian language novelist
Paulo Coelho.
Awarding the International Prize to writers from the same country for two consecutive years can be regarded as sending a certain signal. In fact, there is no need for the Greenzana Carver Award to send out a signal. In recent years, Chinese literature has become increasingly influential internationally.
It's obvious to all.
However, they awarded the award to "The Crowd", which Yu Dong did not expect. Judging from the results, it was actually "To the West" or "Death of a Widow" that was more favored by these literary awards.
The book "The Crowd" caused quite a stir in China, but its performance in foreign countries was not as good as other works, because the characteristics of Shanghainese writing in this novel were not reflected in the translation at all.
However, some translations have tried to translate using a certain local dialect. For example, a French translator tried to translate "The Crowd" using the Gascon dialect, but the final result was not good, and could even be said to be very bad.
Since the Grinzana Carver Award can be awarded to "The Crowd", it is definitely not because of the innovation of this book's writing language, but because of its stream-of-consciousness characteristics.
"Teacher Yu."
Yu Dong was staring at the invitation in a daze when someone knocked on the door.
I looked up and saw Deng Xing, a first-year performer, standing at the door.
Putting the invitation letter into the drawer with a smile, Yu Dong smiled and said, "Deng Xing, why did you come to see me?"
Deng Chen placed a manuscript on his chest, then bent down until it reached 90 degrees. He faced the ground and walked toward Yu Dong with small steps. When he arrived at the desk, he presented the document in his hand to Yu Dong.
Go up.
This action is particularly similar to that of the eunuch who is responsible for delivering memorials in the main hall.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yu Dong reached for the manuscript and rolled his eyes, "What are you making that weird look? Stand up straight."
Deng Xing smiled strangely and said: "This is not because the troupe recently assigned me the role of a eunuch. In order to perform well, I have to integrate it into my daily life."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows and said, "If you really want to blend in, I'll teach you a trick."
"What move?" Deng Chen asked seriously.
"Refer to the opening chapter of the Sunflower Book."
Deng Xing was stunned for a moment before he realized what he was doing, and then he laughed dryly and said: "There is no need to make such a sacrifice."
Yu Dong smiled, stopped teasing Deng Xian, and turned to look at the manuscript in his hand, "What are these?"
Deng Chen scratched the back of his head and said, "This is a script I worked on with a few classmates. I plan to use it to participate in this year's Deep Space Short Film Competition."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, "The script has just come out now, so I'm a bit late."
This year's Deep Space Short Film Competition has been collecting submissions since last fall. The deadline is May 20th this year, and awards will begin on June 20th.
Today is already mid-March, and there are only two months until the deadline.
Logically speaking, two months is more than enough time to shoot a short film, but for these students, it seemed a bit rushed.
On the one hand, the students lack experience and do not plan in advance, so the shooting efficiency is very low. On the other hand, the students usually have to attend classes and can only take breaks to shoot.
Previously, Jia Zhangke's filming of "The Tuner" took several months, but it was still relatively fast.
"We also know that we are in a hurry. We didn't prepare to compete in the first place. Later, Lao Zhao - oh, Zhao Bo, it was him who suggested that he should participate in a competition. He didn't want to get a ranking, but just wanted to train himself."
Yu Dong nodded and agreed: "This mentality is right. The main purpose of Deep Space Company's Deep Space Short Film Competition is to let students exercise more. Students in our school are on a first-come, first-served basis, and submissions and other submissions are accepted.
It’s very convenient and we certainly encourage you to actively participate.”
Deng Xing smiled and said: "Isn't this just in response to the policy? Please ask Teacher Yu to help us see if this script will work."
Yu Dong then turned over two pages of the manuscript and said, "Sit down for a while, I will show it to you now."
Deng Chen nodded, but did not sit down. Instead, he stood in front of the desk and waited.
Yu Dong glanced at Deng Xi, ignored him, and just started reading the script.
When students come to ask for advice, Yu Dong always welcomes them and responds to their requests. Therefore, although the students are afraid of him, they are also willing to ask him for advice. Similar to reading scripts and reading articles, Yu Dong usually does a lot of things.
After reading a few paragraphs, Yu Dong frowned and said, "Deng Xi, you need to practice your handwriting. I don't ask you to write more artistically, but at least it should be clean and tidy so that people can read it smoothly. Where to modify, use
Just draw horizontal lines instead of making ink balls like this. This kind of problem should have been corrected by your teacher in middle school."
"Teacher Yu, this character was written by Zhao Ku."
Yu Dong seemed to have confused him, "I know your handwriting. The reason why I asked Zhao Kui to write it is probably because your handwriting is more ugly."
"I have been practicing very hard." Deng Xing defended himself, but his voice became smaller and smaller.
It is generally accepted that students in the Drama Department like to practice calligraphy, mainly because teachers Yu Dong and Bi Feiyu pay more attention to this.
Deng Xing was indeed practicing, but the time was not long and there was no results.
In fact, when Yu Dong picked up their handwriting, it was not because he had high requirements for the students' handwriting, but because most of the students' handwriting was too ugly. To say that it was made by dog ​​paws would be an insult to dog paws.
Yu Dong's requirements for them are very simple, as long as they are neat and clean.
The story written by Deng Xiang and others is not long, but the length of the script is not short. This is because neither Zhao Kui nor Deng Xiang have experience in writing scripts. They are still training their prose writing methods in Dongping.
Go write a script.
This is a mystery movie. The male protagonist is an orphan. He just graduated from college and was assigned to work as an editor at a newspaper. However, on the third day after he arrived at the newspaper, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper died.
At about eleven o'clock at noon, a scream came from the editor's office, and then the nearest assistant rushed in and saw the scene of the editor-in-chief's tragic death.
Overall, this is a locked room murder case.
The editor-in-chief's room has no secret passage, the front door faces the editorial hall, and the windows on the back face the bustling street.
The murderer wants to kill the editor-in-chief and escape. There are only two ways.
The window was excluded first because when the editor-in-chief died, the window was plugged in from the inside, and if the murderer escaped through the window, many people would see it on the street.
Then all that's left is the door.
But the problem is that the door of the editor-in-chief's office faces the hall. After the screams started, many people looked at the door and didn't see anyone coming out. They only saw the assistant going in.
The police who came to handle the case, after a round of questioning, believed that the murderer was the editor's assistant who was the first to enter the scene. The reason why he entered the scene immediately was to destroy evidence.
But the question is, what evidence did he destroy? Also, the assistant was not the last person to see the editor-in-chief before the incident.
Five minutes before the incident, a literary editor entered the editor-in-chief's office, but she didn't stay long. She was there to deliver a manuscript to the editor-in-chief.
According to her, when she met the editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief was in very good condition.
In the next five minutes, no one entered the editor-in-chief's office.
Just when the case reached a deadlock, the protagonist ran out and found out the truth of the matter.
The truth is that the female editor and the editor-in-chief's assistant were actually on the same team. The female editor entered the editor-in-chief's office first, killed the editor-in-chief, and turned on a tape recorder. There was a screaming sound in the tape recorder.
Five minutes later, the sound of screaming was played. The assistant to the editor went in first, turned off the tape recorder, and took advantage of the chaos to take away the tape.
After reading it, Yu Dong raised his head and looked at Deng Xian, "Is this the end?"
Deng Chen nodded: "Well, Teacher Yu, is this long enough?"
"This article is long enough, but the content is really thin."
"Isn't this a short film..."
"It can be short and concise enough." Yu Dong smiled and continued, "There are many problems with your script. First of all, from the perspective of script writing, you have inserted a lot of ineffective monologues and explanations. For example, here, the protagonist Zhang
Heng saw a clock on the wall. The beating of the minute hand made people feel a little confused. Why did you write this? It was not used later. In the end, the shot of the minute hand was thrown there without being picked up. Also, the police were investigating
When I was working on the case, the protagonist had too many inner monologues. I know you wanted to make the protagonist’s character more fleshed out, but the problem is, these ineffective monologues are useless at all. It’s better to add a few effective actions.”
"Script writing should be concise. You, Teacher Zhang, must have emphasized this many times. To be honest, when I write novels and essays, I am not as verbose as you."
"Yes, yes." Deng Chen nodded repeatedly, "We will definitely change it."
Chapter completed!